Cape Air reports record ridership

Airport and Transportation Commission also received update on completed 2012 street program

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Kirksville Daily Express - Kirksville, MO

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Posted Dec. 7, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Updated Dec 7, 2012 at 11:18 AM

Posted Dec. 7, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Updated Dec 7, 2012 at 11:18 AM

The Kirksville Regional Airport reported its all-time highest number of passengers during the month of November to the Airport and Transportation Commission meeting earlier this week.

City staff also updated the commission on the completion of the 2012 street overlay program which saw about 3,000 tons of asphalt used on Cottage Grove and La Harpe streets.

Reporting on the airport, Director David Hall related that Cape Air’s switch from a Saturday to Sunday flight was well received and that ridership continued to be at an all-time high.

“That shift has been productive and November was really good,” he said.

The airport saw the all-time high of 1,121 passengers during November, after years of ridership near the 300s with the previous air service provider.

The airport is still in the midst of its parking lot and entrance road project after the lone bid came over budget.

Hall said staff is working with W.L. Miller to redesign the specifications and see where costs can be cut in the project that was to provide a resurfaced entrance road, expanded parking lot and airport facilities.

City staff has also been busy with completing the season’s street work and projects, with City Engineer Ed Ieans telling the commission that the street overlay program, the Kirksville R-III’s Safe Routes to School and Bear Creek 9 projects were all completed.

Ieans also updated the commission on the ongoing Franklin Street project, reporting that Phase 1 of the project is about 70 percent complete.

“We made a lot of progress because of the good weather,” Ieans said.

The project has installed 14 light bases, 7,000 square-feet of sidewalk and 700 feet of curb and gutter primarily along the west side of Franklin Street extending from the downtown south to Truman State’s campus.

Ieans said work would continue while Truman State is in winter break to bury the power lines along Franklin.